Humayun Ansari is the Director of the Centre for Ethnic Miority Studies and Equal Opportunities, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has conducted extensive research into the history of Muslims in Britain, ethnic studies and race relations, the employment and career opportunities of ethnic minorities, and racial discrimination and disadvantage in society. He is co-author of Managing Cultural Diversity at Work. In 2002 Dr Ansari was awarded the OBE for his work in race relations.
Striking diversity is the most distinctive feature of the Muslim
community in Britain. Yet, as Ansari argues in this history of
Islam in Britain, British Muslims have consistently been
portrayedas denizens of a monolithic and undifferentiatedworld, ill
at ease with modernity, secularism and democracy. Through
painstaking research, and an inspired exploration of the issues of
identity, Ansari sets out to dispel this absurd, but widely held,
myth.
*The Independent*
[Humayun Ansari does] an excellent job of providing a historical
and country-wide account which is not only descriptive but
analytical. It is fluently written and easily accessible to a wide
range of readers and has the potential of becoming the initial
reference text for people starting research in the area as well as
a required text for university courses.
*Jorgen S. Nielsen, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of
Birmingham*
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